The Sandbar Duel: James Bowie gets quite a treatment here: According to William C. Davis, though, he was the most notorious land scam artist...

UT Sports Jokes: You may have heard that the University of Tennessee has had a little trouble with some of its players lately. Since mine ...

Diversity and the Razor: I was reading this piece on the effects of diversity (h/t: Cassandra ). It begins by pointing out that diversity ...

Women, Love, Intimidation: Dr. Helen is a woman we all greatly admire, and for several good reasons. There is her courage in the face of he...

How Sophisticated: The New York Times' alleged conservative probably thinks he is 'defending institutions,' which is a key con...

Science @ Work: Arts & Letters Daily links to an amusing "debate" between Discover and a paleoanthropologist . To those who ...

Grim's Hall Book Club: Bendigo Shafter Part I I realize that several of you are just now in the process of getting the book, so we...

Social Harmony, Revisited: Perhaps the most frequently cited thing I've ever written was Social Harmony , a meditation on the importance...

Gun Rights: The Tenth Amendment Version The BATFE is sending letters to gun dealers in Montana and Tennessee stating that it will ignore st...

Cartoons for the New Year: The Geek with a .45 was celebrating an apparent Looney Toons marathon held today in honor of the new year. I mi...

Dark Hypocrisy, etc. Today's installation in 'finding the dark hypocrisy at the heart of Middle America' is on Starbucks . It br...

Death Passes By: The news this morning is worth celebrating . 2009 ends with the lowest level of casualties among our servicemen and women ...

A Merry New Year To You All: This New Year's carol starts off very pious and proper; and about halfway in, descends into riot. In this ...

Memento Mori : As we close the year, Greyhawk reminds us of what has passed. The only thing needed to really sell the story was a brigade t...

"At Last" A young lady I'd not heard of before tonight, named Neko Case, sings here a poem that grabs the attention and holds ...

Rose Parade: Bthun wanted me to mention that RFDTV will be covering the Rose Parade. They don't cut away from the equine parts of the ...

States Take Action on Health Care Reform: Utah joins the fray : Utah's attorney general is preparing to joins a lawsuit that challenges ...

Grim's Hall Book Club: Bendigo Shafter Several of you have suggested to me over the years that we do a book club, like we used to do th...

Security and Travel: John Derbyshire remarks that the future of commercial airline travel does not appear bright : If, as seems likely, we a...

May God Defend the Right: Trial by combat pit a miracle of God each time, by invoking his aid in bringing about a just settlement to a case ...